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Thomas
Haigh
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee & The Haigh Group
Thomas Haigh is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a partner in The Haigh Group, a historical services organization. He has two degrees in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation "Technology, Information and Power: Administrative Technicians in Corporate America, 1917-2000" was the first overall history of the evolution of the technologies, institutions, and occupations of administrative information processing within the American corporation. One of these days it will become two books. The first is focused on the big picture rise of technical expertise in administrative systems from office manager to chief information officer over the twentieth century. The second looks in detail at the creation and development of the corporate data processing department from 1945 to 1975, focusing issues of institutional form, practice, and professional identity. Material from this project has already given rise to a number of papers, which can be found at www.tomandmaria.com/tom/writing. From other research projects Haigh has published articles on the history of structural development of the software and services industry and its leading trade association ADAPSO during the 1960s and 70s, the emergence of the search engine and portal industry, the commercialization of web and email technology during the 1990s, the history of data base management systems, the history of word processing and office automation, and the origins of packaged software. From 2003 to 2006 he was a consultant to SIAM, the professional association for applied mathematics, and conducted a series of twenty-three oral history career interviews with developers of software packages and libraries for numerical computing. He has an interest in the social history of the personal computer, which has led to several conference presentations and some oral history interviews. Eventually that may make a book too. Haigh edits the Biographies department of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and served on the ACM History Committee. He chairs SIGCIS and maintains the Computer History Resource File, a guide to key resources in the field. For 2007-8 he was chair of the SIG on the History & Foundations of Information Science for ASIS&T, and in 2008-9 he was a fellow of the Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM.
Federico
Gobbo
history and philosophy of computing in Italy
Privatdozent of history of computing
Research Center "Informatica Interattiva" (CRII), University of Insubria, Italy
Al
Kossow
Software Preservation
Software Curator
Computer History Museum
Software Preservation
Dag
Spicer
History of computing; medicine
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Dag Spicer is CHM's "Chief Content Officer," and is responsible for creating the intellectual frameworks and interpretive schema of the Museum's various programs and exhibitions. He also leads the Museum's strategic direction relating to its collection of computer artifacts, films, documents, software and ephemera--the largest collection of computers and related materials in the world. Dag also undertakes research for legal and commercial intellectual property specialists and writes on computer history for various media and scholarly organizations. Since he began in 1996, he has given hundreds of interviews with major news organizations and is recognized internationally as a subject matter expert in the field. Prior to joining the Museum, he spent a decade as a digital circuit designer, eventually founding two successful companies, Pacific Engineering Group and Pacific Documentation Group, both based in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Seeking to understand the deeper forces at work behind the nature of scientific and technological innovation, he left engineering to pursue an interest in the history of science and graduated from Trinity College (University of Toronto) in 1993 with a B.A. (Hons.) in History and an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in 1995. Spicer was attending the History of Science Ph.D. program (with a Ph.D. minor in electrical engineering) at Stanford University under Tim Lenoir when, in his second year, CHM Board Chairman Len Shustek and Museum co-founders Gwen and Gordon Bell approached him about managing the collection at the Museum. He accepted, leaving Stanford with a second Master's degree (A.M.) in 1997. Spicer is on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Annals for the History of Computing and is a member of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and the American Association for the History of Medicine. He volunteers at Stanford University Medical Center in the Department of Surgery and has a lifelong interest in internal medicine, surgical techniques, and the disciplinary foundations and history of medicine. His hobbies include swimming, hockey, computer architecture, limnology, and Cycladic art.
Thaweesak
Koanantakool
Natural Language Processing
President
National Science and Technology Development Agency
James
Sumner
Lecturer in History of Technology
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
James Sumner has broad interests across the history of technology and is Associate Director of the UK National Archive for the History of Computing (NAHC) at the University of Manchester. His present research focuses on microcomputing, standards and compatibility, and he is currently supervising PhD research on the social history of the 1980s microcomputer boom and on the labor history of commercial computing, both in British context. He is an Associate Partner in the ESF-funded Software for Europe program.
Gokhan
Ersan
information design
grad student
university of illinois, chicago (uic)
i am a visual communication designer interested in the presentation of scientific research products.
Rebecca
Slayton
History of Cold War Science and Technology
Lecturer and Researcher
Stanford University
Rebecca Slayton is a Lecturer in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Stanford University. Her research in the history of computing examines how the vocational and institutional commitments of computer experts have shaped their intellectual tools and political engagement. Currently she is writing a book which examines how public debate and scientific advising on missile defense changed with the rise of software engineering and corresponding concerns about the risks of computational complexity. She is author of “Speaking as Scientists: Computer Professionals in the Star Wars Debate,” History and Technology, Winter 2004, 19(4) 335-364, and of “Revolution and Resistance: Rethinking Power in Computing History” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2008, 30(1), 96-96. She has presented related work at academic conferences and at several security studies centers. She has also applied concepts from the historiography of technology to contemporary discourse about information technology for counter-terrorism.
Sheldon
Hochheiser
Institutional Historian
IEEE History Center, New Brunswick NJ
Bell Labs and AT&T. The convergence of computing and communications. The role of professional societies in computing.
Jun
Luo
Foundations of Computation, Information, and Cognition
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Toronto
Casey
O'Donnell
Videogame Development; History of Computing; Science and Technology Studies
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Casey O'Donnell is an Assistant Professor in the Grady College at the University of Georgia. His research examines the complex socio-technical intersections/interactions that occur during the design and development of videogames. This research examines the power dynamics that occur in both professional "AAA" organizations and formal and informal "independent" game development communities. His research has spanned game development companies from the United States to India. His research examines issues of work, production, copyright, as well as third world and postcolonial aspects of the videogame development workplace.
Lars
Heide
Innovation of IT technology and its impact
Associate Professor
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Eric
Swedin
Information Security
Associate Professor
Weber State University
Computer history, information security, science fiction and computers, and the social implications of computing.
Fred
Turner
media technology and cultural history
Associate Professor
Stanford University
Cultural history of computing, counterculture, technoculture
Jaakko
Suominen
cultural History of computing and media technologies
Professor of Digital Culture
University of Turku, Finland
cultural History of computing and media technologies, popular culture, game cultures, retrogaming, cultural history of sensual and emotional experiences of computing |